Choose a topic from Part 2B:
1. A man is bound to give evidence either when his duty asa citizen requires it, or when his evidence may prevent a seriousmiscarriage of justice. A man is not bound to come forward freelywith evidence when his silence would do no harm to the commongood.
2. The tested evidence of two or three witnesses is enoughto enable the judge to pronounce sentence.
3. Sometimes evidence is rejected without indicating anactual fault in the witness. Extraneous reasons may detract fromthe value of the evidence, or render it suspect, and so cause it tobe discredited.
4. To give false evidence is to commit grave sin. For thisis perjury, which is the telling of a lie when under oath.Perjury is directly opposed to justice, and comes into flatconflict with the Eighth Commandment: "Thou shalt not bearfalse witness against thy neighbor." Even when the evidence asa lie is only a slight matter of venial sin, as testimonyfalsely sworn to, it is a serious sin.
"As the flesh is nourished by food, so is man supported by prayers"
St Augustine
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"If, devout soul, it is your will to please God and live a life of serenity in this world, unite yourself always and in all things to the divine will. Reflect that all the sins of your past wicked life happened because you wandered from the path of God's will. For the future, embrace God's good pleasure and say to him in every happening: "Yea, Father, for so it hath seemed good in thy sight." "
St Alphonsus de Liguori
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"The Lord has always revealed to mortals the treasures of his wisdom and his spirit, but now that the face of evil bares itself more and more, so does the Lord bare his treasures more."
St John of the Cross, OCD - Doctor of the Church
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